LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
Austin, Texas
FISCAL NOTE
74th Regular Session
February 13, 1995
TO: Honorable John Whitmire, Chair IN RE: Senate Bill No. 45
Committee on Criminal Justice By: Shapiro
Senate
Austin, Texas
FROM: John Keel, Director
In response to your request for a Fiscal Note on Senate Bill No.
45 (Relating to an affirmative finding of sexual motivation and
to the punishment and eligibility of certain repeat sexual
offenders who victimize children for parole or release on
mandatory supervision.) this office has determined the following:
The bill would amend the Penal Code by providing for a punishment
of imprisonment for life if a defendant on trial for a first-
degree felony, the judgment for which will contain an affirmative
finding of sexual motivation, has previously been convicted of
one of various offenses involving children. Such an offender
would not be eligible for release to mandatory supervision.
This estimate assumes that bonds would be issued from existing
authority to finance construction costs. If no additional bonds
were issued, construction costs would be funded out of the
General Revenue Fund.
Implementation of the provisions of the bill would result in an
institutional division inmate population increase of 21 in the
year 1997 increases to 242 in the year 2000.
The probable fiscal implication of implementing the provisions of
the bill during each of the first five years following passage
is estimated as follows:
Fiscal Probable Operating Costs Probable Cost for
Year Construction Costs Out of the General Debt Service out
from General Revenue Fund of the General
Obligation Bonds Revenue Fund
1996 $2,271,573 $0 $100,196
1997 4,432,505 278,002 395,906
1998 3,466,429 958,185 744,318
1999 3,800,758 2,027,650 1,064,866
2000 4,019,117 3,315,647 1,409,791
Fiscal Change in
Year Number of State
Employees from
FY 1995
1996 .0
1997 6.0
1998 23.0
1999 47.0
2000 77.0
Similar annual fiscal implications would continue as long as the
provisions of the bill are in effect.
No fiscal implication to units of local government is
anticipated.
Source:
LBB Staff: JK, GG, RR, DF